Dale Harvey is an Engineer at Couchbase and a long time enthusiast of
Erlang, Javascript, Open Source and the Open Web. Dale previously
cofounded the online spreadsheet company Hypernumbers before moving to
Couchbase where he now focuses on Couchbase core + Couchbase Mobile.
Dale's interest in computing started over 15 years ago; he enjoys
working with cutting edge technology and knowing the ins and outs of the
web, however his passion is solving problems and delivering solutions
to end users. Dale lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and can be found
speaking and participating in the local developer community.

When Canonical based their file sharing system Ubuntu One on CouchDB technology, it became the largest deployment of Erlang on desktops everywhere; now Couchbase is working on Couchbase Mobile, bringing the power of Erlang and CouchDB to mobile devices – and into users’ hands across the world.

In this talk I will discuss why Couchbase is a great fit for mobile applications and the challenges and benefits we have had using Erlang in mobile devices.